IB History

IB History

THE COLD WAR


George Kennan's Long Telegram
The Long Telegram--Scanned Version of Original






Review Material for IB Exam 2010

For April 23, 2010:

1) Examine the part played by each of the following in the outbreak of the First World War: alliances; mobilization; Balkan nationalism.

For April 20, 2010:

1) In what ways, and with what results, was Germany the key focus of the early stages of the Cold War?

2) What were the reasons for, and results of, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?


For April 7, 2010:

1) For what reasons, and with what results, were there disagreements between participants at the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945?

2) Define 'total war"and examine to what extent either the First World War or the Second World War was a "total war."

For March 31, 2010:

1) Compare and contrast the reasons for Germany's involvement in both the First and Second World Wars.

2) Compare and contrast the results of the First and Second World Wars.




REGIONS for QUESTIONS on WAR:
Europe--WW I, WW II, Greek Civil War
Asia--Korean War, Vietnam War, maybe WW II


CUBA & the Cold War

Thirteen Days in October
Cuban Missile Crisis NSA Source

Vietnam War Links:

**Vietnam War on Wikipedia**
**Wars for Vietnam from Vassar College**
First Idochina War from Wikipedia
**The Vietnam War from Vietpix**
**About the Vietnam War**
**Plethora of Documents, Articles, and Links on Vietnam War**
**What is an Insurgency?**

Animated Map Fall of France
Invading France
WW II on BBC
Operation Market-Garden
Brief of Key Events on BBC
WW II on Wikipedia
Causes of WW II on About.com
1901 to World War II
Timeline of WW II
Posters of WWI & WW II



Deadly Medicine
Deadly Medicine at US Holocaust Memorial Museum





International Relations, 1918-1936

Treaty of Versailles
14 Points
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles Article
A Century of Noble Prize Laureates
British Reaction to Treaty
Verdicts of the Treaty

League of Nations

About the League of Nations--Indiania University
League of Nations on Wikipedia
League of Nations from San Diego State
Corfu & Bulgaria
Manchuria
Abyssinia
Nansen Passports
Nansen Organization fron Nobel.org


1918-1924

International Relations, 1919-1939
League of Nations Role
The Kellog-Briand Pact, 1928
The London Naval Conference


Hyperinflation in Germany, 1923

Hyperinflation Crisis from jon d clare
Hyperinflation in Germany from The Economist
German Hyperinflation 1923 from Western Missouri University

The Dawes Plan
Dawes Plan--U.S. State Dept. Historian
Dawes Plan--Wikipedia
Gustav Stresemann

Locarno Agreement
Locarno Treaty from knowledge rush
Locarno Treaties from Wikipedia
Locarno Treaties Texts from Avalon Project
Speech on Locarno Treaties by Frank Kellogg, US Secretary of State

Kellogg-Briand Documents from Avalon Project

World War I

First World War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/

Interactive Map from BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/launch_ani_western_front.shtml

Causes of WW I

War on the Western Front

First World War General Site

Ludendorff on Spring Offensive 1918

Timeline 1918

The Armistice

Germany During WW I

Munich in 1919

Ludendorff & Stab in the Back Theory


Russo-Japanese War, Wikipedia
Russo-Japanese War

Battle of Tsushima
Battle of Tsushima

Battle of Mukden
Battle of Mukden